'El Chapo' Recaptured: Mexico Takes Slippery Drug Lord In Custody

Mexico's president tweeted big news Friday, informing his citizens that notorious drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera has been recaptured. "El Chapo" has been a fugitive since his spectacular escape from a Mexican prison last year.

"Mission accomplished : we have it. I want to inform Mexicans Joaquin Guzman-Loera has been arrested," President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote in a Spanish language tweet.

The U.S. government offered a $5 million reward for help in finding and catching Guzman-Loera after he escaped through a tunnel last July.

"Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman-Loera has destroyed lives and communities throughout the United States and Mexico and his capture is a high priority for DEA," Acting Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Chuck Rosenberg said last year. "His escape poses a danger to the safety and security of both our countries."

The Mexico government has refused in the past to extradite Guzman-Loera to face 11 criminal indictments in the United States.

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